I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

  • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Debatable :) Torrents rely on seeders. I’ve downloaded movies and TV shows >5 yrs since initial upload via Usenet. Yes, things expire there too (eventually), but when the getting is good, it’s uniformly good / fast.

    OTOH, 1337 has been pretty decent to me of late.

    It’s tricky. On one hand, Jellyfin and the arr stack are what got me into self hosting. OTOH…torrents are simpler - I can plug my external SSD directly into my router, which streams to NovaPlayer on any android device - nothing else needed. Want a new show / movie? Grab the torrent, punt it across to ssd via samba share. It auto populates.

    https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP

    It’s…simpler. Arguably more elegant / less moving parts.

    Dunno.

    • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i’m on two private trackers that aren’t that hard to get into and I routinely download 10 plus year old 50 - 100 gb files with good seeds. I have never run into something not decently seeded since I went private.